Salman Rushdie on Surviving Attack at 2022 Event ✍️

Salman Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying in the company of strangers — that was what was going through my mind." His new book is "Knife."

This interview originally aired April 16, 2024.

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